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In the past few years the scene has changed more significantly than in the past few decades regarding the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and its place in the relations between India and Pakistan. Important changes have also taken place in the circumstances within the state and within and around each of the two countries. The author has been a long time observer of these changes, in the recent as well as a more distant past, and their relevance to the fortunes and ...
The right to amend the Constitution in India lies with Parliament, when 'meeting in the exercise of its constituent power.' In the last quarter of a century, however, and in an atmosphere of judicial activism in the face of a faltering Parliamentary and administration, the Supreme Court has gone beyond its role as interpreter of the constitution to become its arbiter. There is thus a possibility in India's federal structure of an impasse between the Supreme Court ...